Thanks to a new oral history project funded by Yale and a grant from the Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, memories of a bygone era of closely knit neighborhoods are being recorded and preserved for future generations. About two dozen older New...
Bruce Ackerman, the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale Law School, received the Insignia of Commander of the French Order of Merit from the Republic of France at a ceremony at Yale on March 1. The award was presented by Madame...
President Richard C. Levin today named Graduate School Dean Peter Salovey as dean of Yale College and Jon Butler, chair of the History Department, as dean of the Graduate School. “It gives me very great pleasure to announce the appointment of two...
Yale University Dean Peter Salovey has announced a significant increase in financial aid for doctoral students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale. The nine-month stipend for both entering and continuing students in the humanities and...
Louise Glück, poet laureate of the United States and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, will be the next Rosenkranz Writer-in-Residence in Yale College, Yale College Dean Richard H. Brodhead has announced. As such, Glück will teach courses and workshops...
At the meetings of the American Historical Association in Washington, D.C., in January, two Yale faculty members, Timothy Snyder and Peter Gay received, respectively, the George Louis Beer Prize for “outstanding historical writing in European...
An exhibition at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St., brings to life an episode of American – and Connecticut – history that has not yet received its due attention: the unique struggle of more than 215,000 African Americans...
A symposium on city ports, a multi-media exhibition of large-scale environment-friendly architecture and a weekly lecture series featuring some of the world’s most celebrated architects, designers and planners are among the free and public offerings at...
The Seventh Annual Arthur Liman Public Interest Colloquium, “Groups in Transition: Public Interest Lawyering in an Era of High Anxiety,” will be held at Yale Law School on March 5. Panel discussions, 8:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., will focus on three areas: “...
The tenth annual “Rebellious Lawyering” Conference -aAA- the nation’s largest student-run public interest law conference – will take place February 20-22 at Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street. Rebellious Lawyering brings together practitioners, law...